BACKGROUND Room service is a foodservice model that has been increasingly implemented across health care facilities in an effort to improve patient satisfaction and reduce food waste. In 2013, Mater Private Hospital Brisbane, Australia, was the first hospital in Australia to implement room service, with the aim of improving patient nutrition care and reducing costs. OBJECTIVE The aim of this ...

Low-grade chronic inflammation is prevalent in patients undergoing haemodialysis (HD) treatment and is linked to the development of premature atherosclerosis and mortality. The non-pharmacological approach to treat inflammation in HD patients through nutritional intervention is well cited. We aimed to assess the efficacy of different nutritional interventions at improving inflammatory outcomes ...

Setting up and running a Clinical Nutritional Support Team can be challenging and is time consuming. Team members have to be motivated, committed and persistent. High quality working relationships are fundamentally important within the team, between teams and with other healthcare professionals. Good communication, careful planning, sensitive implementation and robust monitoring are the corners...

BACKGROUND In recent years supermarkets and fast food restaurants have been replacing those "wet markets" of independent vendors as the major food sources in urban China. Yet how these food outlets relate to children's nutritional intake remains largely unexplored. METHOD Using a longitudinal survey of households and communities in China, this study examines the effect of the urban built food...

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy tend to eat more healthfully than the poor in the U.S. Using event study designs exploiting supermarket entry and households’ moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments have meaningful effects on healthy eating. Using a structural demand model, we find that exposing low-income households to the same...

This study examined the association between nutritional awareness and diet quality, as indicated by energy density, dietary diversity and adequacy to achieve dietary recommendations, while considering the potentially important role of socioeconomic status (SES). Data were derived from 1351 subjects, aged 18-69 years and enrolled in the ORISCAV-LUX study. Energy density score (EDS), dietary dive...

a field study was conducted in nine villages, three each from kupwara, handwara and karnah tehsils of kupwara district, to find out the nutritional value of feeds and fodders, existing feeding practices and nutritional status of dairy cattle. data was collected from the fifteen farm families from each of the nine were randomly selected through a common questionnaire. all the farmers were found ...

results: most addict patients had a medium level of education. improvement in knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of patients after intervention was observed as follows; decreasing kap in poor level (2.8% vs. 30.6%), (3% vs. 50%), (25% vs. 80.6%), respectively; also, increasing kap in fair level (7% vs. 55.6 %), (15% vs. 15%), (19% vs. 7%), respectively and increasing kap in satisfactory lev...

background: desirable health is impossible without good nutrition, and allah has addressed us on eating foods in 118 verses. objectives: this study aimed to describe the medical university faculty members’ perceptions of nutritional health in the quran, revealing the important role of faculty members. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted with a phenomenological approach. ...